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Apple’s newest version of their mobile operating system, iOS 8, builds on the look and feel of iOS 7. Inside you’ll find a number of feature updates on the surface, but - especially important since it was introduced at a developer conference - you’ll find more underneath the surface than meets the eye. Apple suggests that iOS 8 is "Huge for developers. Massive for everyone else."

All we’ve heard about iOS 8 since the start of today is being pushed to developers by the end of today. Apple will be releasing iOS 8 Beta to developers today, while a full release to the public will be taking place this Fall.

The ominous big black banner looms overhead as we prepare to enter the 2014 WWDC keynote presentation for Apple. This year’s event is sure to bring on some big updates in the software world for Apple’s various mobile and desktop machines, with at least one new name coming in hot. That’s what black banners are for, after all.

This year’s iPhone 6 dummy has been captured once again, this time in the form of a close-up and detailed comparison to the rest of the iPhone lineup. This device is compared to the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s as well as the entire collection of iPhone 4S and below - everything with a smaller display, that is to say.

Three iPhone 6 dummies have appeared this week alongside the single gray device pushed just yesterday. These appear to be the 4.7-inch display models, shown in three distinct iterations: Gold, Space Gray, and Silver. These images match the shell shown yesterday by Sonny Dickson - testing lines and all.

There’s word from Taiwan this week that Apple’s iPhone 6 release will take place in August. This would be a month earlier than the past couple of years of iPhone releases - the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 5 appeared inside of September.

While just 15% of the load has been tipped to be assigned to Pegatron, the iPhone 6 appears to be headed to full production, with multiple manufacturers in play. This model with a 4.7-inch display has been rumored for several weeks to be just one of two iPhone 6 models being prepared for production, the other significantly larger.

Reports of the next-generation iPhone 6 have begin to trickle, bringing on word that the device may very well be thinner than its predecessor. The question we’ve got for you, the reader, is whether you’d rather have a thinner iPhone for the release of the iPhone 6, or one with a bigger battery? Is the trade-off worth having a device thicker than before?

It’s release time for the Ground Zeroes iDROID - or time to let it be known when the case will be in full production, that is. This case replicates the single phone-like accessory given to our hero in Metal Gear Solid 5, the iDROID, but here you’ll find it acting as a fully-functional iPhone 5/5s case. It’s been teased in the past, now appearing - thanks to Kojima Productions - as a full-fledged release.

The images you’re about to see (barring the hero image here) are non-official mockups, of course - there’s no knowing when Apple will actually have the device available for their first reveal. What you’re about to see is a creation made with early prototype sketches in mind, showing up earlier this month with the iPhone 6 with a far larger display - by a half inch, that is - than the iPhone 5s.